NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang isnt backing down from the criticism surrounding DLSS 5, the companys latest push into AI-driven neural rendering

Kyle Orland writes via Ars Technica: Since deep-learning super-sampling (DLSS) launched on 2018's RTX 2080 cards, gamers have been generally bullish on the technology as a way to effectively use machine-learning upscaling techniques to increase resolutions or juice frame rates in games

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded to backlash against DLSS 5, saying artistic control remained with developers and that the AI works with existing geometry

Nvidia's next frame-gen tech goes way beyond upscaling, and not in a good way.

Nvidia has just released DLSS 5, but many gamers are unhappy with how its affecting their games

Nvidia's DLSS 5 AI model uses a deep awareness of environmental lighting and how that light interacts with various materials in a scene to dramatically upgrade the appearance of games, and the results can be both impressive and uncanny

You can sum up the gamer response to NVIDIA's DLSS 5 announcement with the ever-relevant Fallout 4 meme: "Everyone disliked that." Across social media and Reddit last night, I couldn't find anyone who's genuinely positive about the potential for DLSS 5, which uses AI to add "photorealistic" lighting and materials to in-game models and environments

Nvidia's reveal of DLSS 5 hasn't gone quite as planned, and that's putting it very mildly

NVIDIA's new DLSS 5 is certainly a controversial feature for introducing changes in facial features despite being advertised as an visual enhancement building on top of its path tracing technology

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Well, this is a surprise. Just three months into the announcement of DLSS 4.5 and its 31 March rollout, NVIDIA officially announced DLSS 5 just hours ago at its GTC 2026 keynote

However, even with the most powerful graphics cards, human faces in games still look surreal and lifeless, with dead eyes,saran-wrap-smooth faces, and beards that blend into their chins. With Nvidias upcoming DLSS 5, you can play with characters that look like theyre stepped out of a movie screen and were not talking about a Pixar movie either.

Just months after announcing DLSS 4.5 at CES, NVIDIA has unveiled its next major upscaling technology, DLSS 5

DLSS 5 is coming to make your favorite games look even more realistic

Nvidia's GTC 2026 keynote has wrapped, but Tom's Hardware was on the ground to deliver live updates during CEO Jensen Huang's two-hour presentation

Intel has rolled out its XeSS 3.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) via Github. The highlight of the new AI upscaling technology includes binaries for the integration of multiframe generation, which brings it up to speed with the likes of NVIDIA’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR

Trusted hardware leaker kopite7kimi has released fresh rumors regarding Nvidia's purported GeForce RTX 5050 9GB GDDR7 graphics card

Earlier in the year, NVIDIA officially announced that it would update its DLSS 4 technology to DLSS 4.5

NVIDIA has brought a few updates at GDC 2026, with the DLSS 4.5 launching soon in beta, along with updates on RTX Remix, GeForce NOW, and ComfyUI

The RTX 5070 offers strong 1440p performance, 12GB of GDDR7 memory, and support for Nvidias latest features like DLSS 4 and Reflex 2

Pearl Abyss is hard at work optimizing Crimson Desert, and the additions of AMD's FSR Redstone and Nvidia's DLSS 4 tech are bonuses

Even more impressive, the FragBox's fans were barely audible under load, and the CPU and GPU sat at a chill 52C and 65C, respectively CPU GeekBench 6 CPU GeekBench 6 GPU Cinebench 2024 Falcon Northwest FragBox 3,445/22,787 390,148 N/A Desktop with AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, RTX 5090 3,366/18,950 381,400 134/2,124 Desktop with AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, RTX 5090 2,822/14,216 358,253 113/1,103 Apple Mac Studio M4 Max 4,090/26,394 116,028 190/2066 To get back to my initial point, it ran Mafia: The Old Country in 4K flawlessly, with every graphics setting cranked all the way up. While playing on my 120-inch projector home theater setup, the game reached 62 fps natively, and flipping on DLSS upscaling and frame generation bumped that up to 120 fps

DLSS owns FSR in battle of the upscaling techs and native 4K can't hold a rendered candle to Nvidia's GPU-booster either

In a new blind test featuring six different games, users heavily preferred the image quality of DLSS 4.5 and crowned it as the best against FSR 4 and native rendering